Seoul: A 42-year-old man in South Korea set his apartment on fire on Wednesday and fatally stabbed his five neighbours, including a 12-year-old girl, who tried to escape the fire, the police said. The man set fire to his own flat, located on the fourth floor of a residential building in Jinju, 430 km south of Seoul, the police chief of Jinju told media.
He then went down to the second floor where he attacked residents coming out of the corridor with a knife. Thirteen others were also injured as the suspect randomly attacked his neighbours on the staircase of the building, Yonhap news agency reported.
